". . . a library tends to become a veritable Frankenstein, eating up elbow-room and bearing down like an avalanche on space, long before its creator realizes it to be no longer his slave." Thomas Moult: Introduction to Spencer's Forty Years in My Bookshop
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
~Lord Henry P. Brougham
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." Logan Pearsall Smith.
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.” - Horace Mann
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - GK Chesterton
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
--Jim Rohn
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars.
You can borrow that from your kids!
--Jim Rohn
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
--Walt Disney
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet,
but his books were read'.
--Hillaire Belloc
I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime.
All which have been with books
--Unknown
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
--Eudora Welty
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
--Gilbert Highet
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
--Unknown
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
--Gore Vidal
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.
--Mark Twain
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
--Groucho Marx
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